I'm at the University of Maryland, University College, or UMUC.edu. I'm almost done, and I've completed most of my degree online. UMUC is a "Forbes Favorite"

I'm at the University of Maryland, University College, or UMUC.edu. I'm almost done, and I've completed most of my degree online. UMUC is a "Forbes Favorite" for online education. And, while I think that WebTycho, their custom academic CMS system is okay, it's soooo.... 1999. It could really use a facelift and an upgrade. Also, towards the end of the semester, the system slows to a crawl. So, yeah, it's a big problem that's begging to be fixed with something better, but you'd have to sell to Universities and colleges, which would be a nightmare. Not only do you have to schmooze the right people, the decision would spend months in committee. And then, implementation would take a long time, because you'd have to interface with whatever legacy database they are using. I can think of a bunch of other ideas I'd rather do in terms of start ups, but if you want to tackle it... more power to you. You could make life better for thousands of students.